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Tampa's Zoo Advocates would like to extend our collective heartfelt appreciation to Thomas French for his tireless dedication towards advocating for the magnificent creatures that cannot speak for themselves.
Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives: Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Thomas French Releases Novel Based on his 2007 Special Report Published in the St.Petersburg Times Newspaper: Zoo Story: Life, Death, the Paradox of Freedom. (Original Series Linked Below)
"You will never again visit a zoo without thinking of this remarkable story......"
Details: Here
Reviews:
Thomas French's "Zoo Story" Rattles the Cages of Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa: Published by the St.Petersburg Times Newspaper: Read
*"Zoo Story": A Tale of Two Alphas: Behind the scenes at a Tampa zoo there's a saga of animal ingenuity and one man's hubris: Published by Laura Miller at Salon.com: Read
*The "Zoo Story," Both Beguiling and Repellent: Published by NPR: Read
*Zoo Story: "Watching the Animals at the Zoo: Published by Creative Loafing: Read
*Zoo Story: "The Elephant in the Room": Published by the Star Tribune: Read
*"It's Man vs Beast at the Zoo": Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo provides a perfect case study for examining the current state of U.S. zoos: Published by the Miami Herald: Read
*Zoo Story: The Inside skinny on the modern American zoo: Published by Washington Monthly: Read
*Parade Magazine Selects Zoo Story as a ParadeSelect Top 5 Pick: Read
*"What Children Learn at the Zoo": A Profound/Must-Read Letter to the Editor Based on Thomas French's Book Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives: Presented by Salon.com: Read
*"Zoo Story: Journalist Thomas French takes a darkly humerous look at humans' paradoxical drive to tame
wild things." Published by the Christian Science Monitor: Read
*Zoo Story: Barnes and Noble review, "A Gripping Behind-The-Scenes Look at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo: Read
*Tom French's "Zoo Story; Life in the Garden of Captives" Watching the Animals at the Zoo: Published by Creative Loafing: Read
*"Zoo Story" On the way to the top: #25 on the New York Times Bestsellers List: Read
It is our pleasure to share with you the epic titled: Zoo Story, by Pulitzer Prize Winner Thomas French of the St.Petersburg Times. Thomas French takes us from Africa to our own Lowry Park Zoo to understand the global debate over animals in captivity. "Zoo Story" will play out over the next two weeks in nine installments:
Our family would like to thank Tom French for the opportunity to share our zoo experiences and in so doing helping to play a small role in a much greater world wide cause.
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- Chapter 1: THE NEW WORLD: December 2nd
As calves growing up in Africa, the elephants survived the slaughter of their families. Now, facing another death sentence, they are loaded onto a 747 headed for Florida.
- Chapter 2: ORPHANS: December 3rd
At Lowry Park, a keeper stays through the night with the elephants, watching for clues into how they?re adjusting to their first days in captivity. Others fight to save an abandoned baby manatee, bottle-feeding him in their arms.
- Chapter 3: IMPERFECT LOVE: December 6th
The queen of the zoo spurns another suitor, even as her endangered species approaches extinction.
The king, old and vulnerable after an upbringing among humans, clings to his throne.
- Chapter 4: WILD: December 7th
On a rain-drenched river, experts pursue one of Lowry Park?s most beloved manatees as he swims toward freedom. At the zoo, in an elaborate display of technology, specialists from Berlin attempt to impregnate a female elephant.
- Chapter 5: SEX-POWER-STATUS: December 9th
Two Sumatran tigers circle in a potentially lethal mating dance. Lowry Park?s CEO ?the true alpha ? maps the zoo?s future.
- Chapter 6: THE HUMAN EXHIBIT: December 10th
Alpha humans, in tuxes and gowns, slip through the zoo after dark for a late-night encounter with the elephants. Lowry Park goes into overdrive for the grand unveiling of a continent.
- Chapter 7: THE CITY & THE FOREST: December 13th
A handful of Lowry Park?s creatures journey to Manhattan to appear on late-night TV. A keeper wades into the Panamanian jungle in search of an endangered species. Back at the zoo, the staff is caught off guard by a momentous birth.
- Chapter 8: CODE ONE: December 14th
An exodus of keepers raises questions about Lowry Park's direction. A coup is attempted against the king.
- Chapter 9: DUSK : December 16th
An overlooked detail leads to one of the worst days in Lowry Park?s history. The staff looks for answers. Back in Africa, so does the family that lives among the elephants of Swaziland.
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